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“Son: quick and clever is your mind, and marvelous strange. But too quick, and too clever it is at times, and lacking in proper thought for others.”
Far Away. It did sound exciting. But scary. A body could get lost Far Away, Gom was sure, for hadn’t he seen that bodies going far away grew smaller and smaller until they disappeared?
Chapter introduction by Caidren Adrianne, a young reader.
“Aha! I don’t make the same mistake twice! . . . One two three, Fiddle-dee-dee; Bust your knee But you won’t catch me!”
“ . . . I’m sure that any common brown sparrow would envy a finch. . . . And why couldn’t (she) fly away?”
“Drat the boy, I said, not meaning it, mind. That nose of his will get him into a right pickle some day.”
Horvin let out a howl of rage. . . . “Dwarf dwarf evil dwarf!” he yelled. “It’s all because of you that our mother left us!”
At this, as though he had understood, the new baby chuckled loudly. “Gom,” he gurgled, and landed a tiny bony fist right in his father’s eye. “Gom, Gom, Gom.”
Stig lifted the cover aside. Its skin was yellow-brown and wrinkled as the skin of an old chestnut, and its head was covered in dark brown hair. There it lay, squirming and kicking by the hearth . . . looking up at him with eyes that were quick and black as little buttons.
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